Commercial, USB-Powered DNA Sequencer Coming This Year

Of course, there are plenty of distopian possibilities as well... seen GATACA? We just need to make certain that we invent a whole new raft of privacy laws that protect free speech, the freedom of genetic diversity, and right to one's own genome not being used to segregate, subjugate or in any way marginalize a person.

Welcome to the brave new world, if your butt isn't just a little puckered, you're just not paying attention.

Whaaat? Your genome doesn't belong to you, dude. You are, at best, a transitory tenant in a house whose foundations were laid three and a half billion years ago. The genome, if it can be said to belong to anyone, belongs to the species, not to any particular instantiation of the phenotype. GATTACA was indeed a pretty bleak glimpse of the future, but only from the perspective of the poor sod who had the bad luck to be born before all the inferior DNA was screened away. Certainly, the film focused on tha

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